Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. And, Google documents allows you export and import pretty easily without too much reformating hell. I'm not complaining.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Metrics Tracking. >> The tracking documents you use can be living, evolving documents.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

G Suite is Google’s collection of business apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive. As you can all work on projects at once with Google Docs, and easily share information through the various apps, it will become easier than ever to work efficiently as a team. Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. What is G Suite?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. I think it knocks Basecamp right out of the water.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. Nonprofits can use this software to track fundraising campaign progress or assign roles within a larger project.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

Integration : I think that the ability to pull in a google document, slides, notes, and so on really adds to the value of the tool – it also separates it from many of the other tweet-pooling tools out there. Or, for use in campaigns, either for those wanting to track a campaign or as part of the public-facing campaign map.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It is impossible to track the nuances of all of those relationships without a little extra help from your CRM. With the personal email to notes feature, fundraisers can easily document their email conversations with donors. Development teams need to know how the relationship with each donor has evolved over the years.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Early in December, Matthew Miller of ZDnet did a good comprehensive piece comparing some major office apps, including DataViz’s Documents To Go , Kingsoft Office , OfficeSuite Pro , Polaris Office comes from Infraware , Quickoffice Pro , and ThinkFree Office. Impressive as Documents To Go is, I was also interested to see what the $0.99

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Get a legal pad and a pen or pull up a Google Doc or a Word Doc. Your plan is a fluid document that can be changed as the situation or needs change. Then set quarterly goals and monthly goals to keep you on track. And start writing. How much money do you need to raise? What strategies do you have in mind?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Working with documents is very nearly the last frontier in which computers are still superior to mobile devices. It is free for a version that just views documents.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Time tracking doesn’t have to be fancy. You can use pencil and paper, an Excel document, or an online tool like Clockify which lets you click ‘Start’ and ‘Stop’ every time you begin or end an activity. You’ll be able to identify and eliminate unproductive tasks that are sucking your time.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

The app tracks your progress and the distance you cover while walking, running, or biking. If you are walking home in a potentially unsafe area you can allow a friend to track your location as you walk and alert them when you arrive at your destination. First Aid by American Red Cross - Google Play. Charity Miles.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

The app tracks your progress and the distance you cover while walking, running, or biking. If you are walking home in a potentially unsafe area you can allow a friend to track your location as you walk and alert them when you arrive at your destination. They have and initial $1,000,000 sponsorship pool from corporate sponsors.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2009

Whether I'm in a remote office, on the road, working from home, or just sitting down the hall, sharing documents and using other collaborative tools online saves time, money, and the environment. Collaborating online also means that there's less need to print out those shared documents.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 19, 2024

With NeonOne, you can access powerful tools to manage your campaign(s) effectively and track progress. NeonOne as a CRM is cloud-based that enables users to accept and track multiple donations from multiple channels. A Growth dashboard to track overall impact. The platform allows users to raise money for multiple causes at once.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

It also keeps you organized by reducing data redundancy, tracking donor activity, and providing automatic reports. What it does: Bloomerang is a donor management and fundraising software that allows nonprofits to organize their donor records and optimize donor engagement through tracking and reporting. Google Workspace.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. Documentation Just recently I started using ScreenSteps from Blue Mango Learning Systems.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Here is where you’ll want to keep documents, like FAQs asked during training sessions, glossary of terms, training guides, how to get help, and educational opportunities. Track record. Track wins and how far you’ve come. Set up regular audits of training docs and business processes. Create a resources web page.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Basecamp is a project space where everyone associated with a project can post updates, set and track deadlines and milestones, and even upload files associated with the project. I've lost hours of work because two people were unknowingly working on different versions of the same document.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. Salesforce helps manage PT's contacts, work flow, fellows and mentors tracking, magazine subscriptions, opportunities, and donations. In order to manage PT's events and track attendance, wufoo.com and Facebook are used.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Track marketing performance. For instance, if TechSoup needs additional documentation from you, that can impact your timeline. Set up valid conversion tracking. Any Google Ad Grant accounts using Smart Bidding or created after 2018 must have valid conversion tracking set up. 4) Track meaningful conversions for your ads.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

It has its own Google Doc.) The idea isn't to start something totally new, but rather to continue doing what we do daily -- and keep track of it, so we can do it better as we go along. It's necessary to have a place to document and track the evaluation of our experiments. What makes it official? Trust your instincts.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. is a URL shortener that allows you to track your links across social media as well as customize the shortened link. Epic Change used four planning tools, but much of the work was really in just two: a private Facebook group and Google Docs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Otherwise easy to lose track of where you've documented what in an internal wiki davidLeeking give all staff access, make it easy, say you want their contributions Seth Schneider Prepopulate the wiki with documents/information that people inherently need to access. Wikis aren't intuitive EricaG Categories & crossreferencing.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Think like a rocket scientist, document or journal your learnings. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. How much time is spent listening?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

When you send in this document, we will send you a short application with questions and activities you will be asked to perform (at home) to demonstrate your abilities. This is a full-time position with benefits and a starting salary of $28,000-$32,000 depending on experience. A resume with at least one professional reference.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Be prepared to spend some time negotiating terms (use Track Changes in Word for this purpose). document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. - get a good time tracking system.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. And how will you track participation? documents. We recommend that you use something like Word or Google Docs to set up a template that you can then use for drafting the application. What is a core narrative document?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Find what really matters to you online, and keep track of it without driving yourself crazy. Is your email, google docs or hard drive filled with "virtual piles" of information or ???drafts??? that haven't been processed? Are you afraid to delete email or old files because you're afraid you might just need it someday?Are

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here. They all know they’re being tracked. So that’s one of the risks of not having documentation. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? Our final task involved emailing a word document to the convenors. Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks. a conference). Why did this wiki work?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

So many museums suffer from departmental siloing, deluges of all-staff emails, the painful jujitsu required to collate seven versions of the same document. The document will always available in its most recent version on the Web, and you can easily add new fields as needed by your institution. the list goes on. I like Wik.is

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You will need to make sure everyone is able to access the documents you will be referring to during the meeting, the files or system you will be using to capture notes and brainstorms, etc. So for some groups Zoom and a google doc, and the occasional Jamboard, will be a perfect match. what document you are referring to….

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Maybe your organization uses Outlook 365 for your email, Salesforce as your CRM, Google docs for your document management, and an ERP for inventory management. There are some tools like Vera Solutions’ AmpImpact or TaroWorks that are built to automatically work with Salesforce because they were built on Salesforce.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud.

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